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On February 26, 2013, the Department of Social Science & Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute welcomed David Harvey to speak as part of our department's lecture series. His presentation focuses on the distinction between Capital and Capitalism, the housing crisis, global economics, alternative currencies, and the impact of social movements such as Occupy Wall Street.
David Harvey is introduced by B. Ricardo Brown, Professor of Social Science & Cultural Studies.
Geographer David Harvey is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). A leading social theorists of international standing, he received his PhD from University of Cambridge in 1961. Widely influential, his work has contributed greatly to broad social and political debate; most recently he has been credited with restoring social class and Marxist methods as serious methodological tools in the critique of global capitalism. He is a leading proponent of the idea of the right to the city, as well as a member of the Interim Committee for the emerging International Organization for a Participatory Society. In 2007, Harvey was listed as the 18th most-cited intellectual of all time in the humanities and social sciences by The Times Higher Education Guide. Professor Harvey's many books include: The Limits to Capital (1982, 1996), The Condition of Postmodernity (1989), Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography (2001), Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development (2006), Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom (2009), and Social Justice and the City (1973, 2009). Professor Harvey also presents the online lecture series: "Reading Marx's Capital" An open course consisting of a close reading of the text of Marx's Capital Volume I in 13 video lectures. For more information, see: http://davidharvey.org/
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